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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1912
Page
4
Advertising rates are published at five cents per line for each insertion. Local businesses may be run until ordered out and charged at the stated rate.
The article notes President-elect Wilson returning to New York from Bermuda and questions the country’s worth of his election. It mentions Daniel Carnegie offering pensions to ex presidents and Congress considering but then striking out a pension provision.
Chairman Underwood of Alabama announces tariff hearings begin January six and invites all interested to present views before the Ways and Means Committee. He aims to have the tariff bill ready in the first week of the extra session, noting revenue needs preclude radical reductions and that the bill should not impede current prosperity.
Immig ration Agent D Clem Deaver notes ten years of industrial progress and rising city populations have loosened the supply demand balance for food products. He sees strong markets for fat stock milk and cream and urges producers to capitalize. The holiday season brings goodwill and a call to generosity against a backdrop of business concerns.
Tincher and Rigdon offer bon bons at 20 cents a pound and fresh chocolates with crepe paper in colors. Shutt Drug Co. advertises full length belts at 10 cents each plus related goods.
Alfred Oaks shot a coyote in the northwest neighborhood Monday. Anderson Bell of Atlantic Iowa, visiting at his brother Alex Bell's home, returned to Omaha Monday. A fire in a snuff factory knocked Chicago firefighters off duty. John Steiner came back from South Dakota to farm eighty acres owned by his father J D Steiner next year. Round Oak heaters claim greater heat with less fuel and are being demonstrated by J O Blauser.
Mrs J C Gillet of Cabool Missouri visited friends in Republic County Kansas after several days with Diller friends. The note mentions a claim about Liquid Real to prevent and cure hog cholera and animal germ diseases with payment on satisfaction at Shutt Drug Co. The text also remarks that a horse no longer smells the distant battle and that approaching war autos emit a whiff toward enemies.
Mr C Frank attended the funeral of his granddaughter Mrs Dora Smith and stayed to visit his daughter Mrs Wm Freitag and family before returning Saturday to Tecumseh Nebraska.
Famous stage beauties use Bucklen's Arnica Salve to remove eruptions blotches sores and pimples. It helps eczema salt rheum sore lips chapped hands chilblains burns cuts and bruises. Sold for 25 cents at Shutt.
A fragmented 1912 letter from Phillipsburg Kansas requests prompt shipment of Liquid Koal to Sheldon Iowa. The writer claims it cured several horses and prevented illness when added to water, and asks for fast delivery and further supplies.
The Modern Woodmen of America marks its 30th anniversary on January 5, 1913. Its first local camp, Pioneer Camp 1, was organized January 5, 1883 in Lyons Iowa with 21 members and remains active with 318 members. The society has paid benefits totaling $115,812,855.56 to its members.
The article reports German makers producing pens from tantalum in black powder form. Unlike steel pens that oxidize and ink sticks, tantalum pens resist oxidation and offer better writing quality. Gold pens are flexible but impractical, while tantalum promises both hardness and pliability at reduced cost.
The piece notes cherries were cultivated in England before Christ and that Kent received the best modern cherry varieties from Flanders in the early 1500s. It highlights a Tasynham near Faversham orchard as a progenitor of Kent’s cherry supply, with Kent’s borders along the Thames Darent and Medway remaining central. It also recounts a tale from Venetian ambassador Bushino of a Kentish garden cherry-eating contest where a young woman won with 20 pounds.
In Tilmo ts a man named Joseph Fleet mailed a letter to his wife announcing his return to quieter country life. The note was mistaken for a fire alarm causing a river patrol, multiple fire units, and a crowd of about ten thousand to gather while officials investigated the apparent blaze.
The text recalls ancient views of solar eclipses as omens of disaster and blasphemy against the gods in Rome and among pagan peoples. It notes continued superstition among some Chinese resisting scientific understanding and fearing gun‑handling threats amid the eclipse.
Woolaston, a Brockham Surrey telegraph boy, earned local acclaim after delivering a telegram to the foreman atop a church spire scaffold. He refused to part with the telegram until its message was relayed, then completed a ten storey descent without incident.
A sixteen year old Turkish girl impressed a Bulgarian general with sharp replies in a camp exchange. She questioned Turks position and fate, proving mother wit and courage. Amused, the general ordered her brave countrymen returned unharmed to her village under his protection.
State of Nebraska Jefferson County probate notice seeks approval of the last will and testament of John Specht and requests that administration be granted to Thos P Price. The hearing is ordered for one oclock P M with details as stated in the petition and instrument.
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